Demospongiae |
Poecilosclerida |
Desmacellidae |
Biemna caribea |
3 |
Also known from The Caribbean as Biemna tubulata Dendy, 1905 (but is an Indian Ocean name). Yellow encrustations or oscular masses or sprawling tubules and branches. It grows on mangrove stilt roots or erect substrata on lagoonal environments. |
Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 |
yellow,branching,tube,massive,lobate,encrusting,soft |
Demospongiae |
Poecilosclerida |
Desmacellidae |
Biemna sp.-yellow tough cushions |
3 |
Small tough but crumbly and mucosy cushions with a yellow punctiform surface. Subsuperficial color is dark purple, some specimens thus appearing darker, especially after collecting. Different from Biemna caribea Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 and from B. cribaria (Alcolado & Gotera, 1986). Spicules are styles, 2-3 categories of sigmas, 2 categories of microxea, and raphides. It needs to be compared to Biemna trisigmata Mothes & Campos, 2004, from North Brazil, with which shares many characters. |
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orange-yellow,brown,yellow,purple-violet,massive,tough,crumbly |